Prevalence of Laboratory Critical Results in Eye Patients from an Eye Hospital in Southern China

Table 1

Distribution of critical results in eye patients by test type.

	Critical results ()	Frequency (%)
Potassium ≥ 6 mmol/l	70	20.6
Potassium ≤ 2.8 mmol/l	41	12.1
Glucose ≤ 2.5 mmol/l	37	10.9
Glucose ≥ 27.8 mmol/l	6	1.8
PT ≥ 20 s	75	22.1
APTT ≥ 48 s	32	9.4
PLT ≤ /L	31	9.1
PLT ≥ /L	8	2.4
FIB ≤ 0.7 g/L	28	8.3
INR ≥ 3.5	5	1.5
WBC ≥ /L	3	0.9
Sodium ≤ 120 mmol/l	3	0.9
Total	339	100

PT: prothrombin time; APTT: activated partial thromboplastin time; PLT: platelet count; FIB: fibrinogen; INR: international normalized ratio; WBC: white blood cell.